| | 5 March: This Date in History |
 | | When the trial ended in December 1770, two British soldiers were found guilty of manslaughter and had their thumbs branded as punishment. |
 | | The Sons of Liberty, a Patriot group formed in 1765 to oppose the Stamp Act, advertised the "Boston Massacre" as a battle for American liberty and just cause for the removal of British troops from Boston. |
 | | Patriot Paul Revere made a provocative engraving of the incident, depicting the British soldiers lining up like an organized army to suppress an idealized representation of the colonist uprising. |
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